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From: stc7@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Steven T Chiang)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: Would you believe?
Keywords: hd, rom 3, hard drives
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Date: 21 Jun 91 07:10:09 GMT
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In article <54087@apple.Apple.COM> stadler@Apple.COM (Andy Stadler) writes:
>
>Just a quick plug for the legal department - please, folks, remember that
>Apple's ROM chips contain copyrighted code and they are not for sale.  There
>are a lot of people on this board (correctly) advocating an end to piracy,
>recognizing the damage it's done to the software industry.  Let's not take a
>step backwards on this.  ROM's are programs too.

	Agreed.  Just for the record, these were pulled off a friend's Rom 3.

>Actually, it's not so simple.  When we developed the ROM 03, we started out
>doing exactly what you describe - one ROM in the motherboard, and the other
>ROM on a special RAM/ROM card we built a few of internally.  This configuration
>works OK in the 16-bit world, but there are problems, especially in the 8-bit
>world, which you touched upon when you mentioned sticky keys.  The keyboard/
>mouse/ADB controller was redesigned for the 1 Megabyte motherboard, and the
>ROM 03 knows about that.  You may have some glitchy jumpy cursor problems,
>and some 8-bit software may be very difficult to control.

	Well, you'd know better than I would...  I didn't test the
stuff out in ProDOS 8, so I don't know what it will do.

>In short, for both legal and technical reasons, I cannot recommend placing
>ROM 03 chips in a ROM 01 motherboard.

	That's why I brought it up, to see if maybe it was that
easy... oh well...


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